Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing - Home Office

� Remove duplication and over working from key processes, assess which processes deliver
the greatest efficiencies, reduce number of gatekeepers.
� Apply a more risk based and proportionate approach to Missing Person enquiries and
record keeping. Re-use information where possible.
� Apply a more risk based and proportionate approach to domestic violence enquiries and
record keeping, remove siblings from definition and ensure systems can identify repeat
victims and offenders.
� Review local interpretation of RIPA and enable a more proportionate risk - based response
to recording authority.
� Adopt a scaled and proportionate approach to the National Intelligence Model (NIM)
� Encourage email discipline.
� Re-focus Crime & Incident Recording:
o Retain National Crime and Incident Recording Standards
o Provide accurate, proportionate records of all incidents as investigative and audit
aids
o Proportionately record and investigate incidents based on assessment of threat, risk
and harm
o Broaden crime categories to rationalise and reduce notifiable offences list (NOL)
o Refocus competitive element of crime statistics with improvement regime
o Adopt a single definition for violent crime
o Cross refer related data bases to prevent duplication
o Record result (outcome) of less serious incidents and crimes on command & control
system, ensure repeat victims, offenders and locations can be identified
o Simplify rules for amending crime records
o Align charging and recording standard
� Review purpose and benefit of attending meetings (internal and external) determine
priority, rationalise overlapping agenda’s and stop attending those that deliver no benefits.
� Exploit technology through incremental adoption & convergence of
o national infrastructure
o business led common processes
o paperless case file
o mobile data
o digital recording of interviews
� Establish a group of frontline officers and staff as a local reference group to identify and
remove unnecessary bureaucratic burdens.
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